Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.
Miss Amelia Potter • Amelia was recently awarded a place at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London WC2, to study History of Art, from September. She is the daughter of James and Johanna Potter of Beaulieu, Hampshire.
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A sea change
A mystery (almost) solved
Happy 400th birthday
Let’s hear it for British food
Good week for
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From sheep to shop
Writing laws of Nature
Country Mouse • A purple patch
Town Mouse • Competing in sunshine
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • July 23, 1921
Oh, the agony! • New agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas
Town & Country Notebook
In the spotlight • Large white butterfly (Pieris brassicae)
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Liquid gold
Throwing down the gauntlet
COUNTRY LIFE JULY 28
Food facts
A duty of care reimagined for today
The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive
Visions of Eden • The tour of British farms reaches Holkham, wellspring of the agricultural revolution
The Pursuit of Love
The book that changed everything
What they said
A Man in Oriental Costume by Rembrandt van Rijn • John McEwen comments on A Man in Oriental Costume
On the record
‘We tell the story of England’ • The chief executive of English Heritage on charity status, education and a broader view
Busman’s holidays • Historians and archaeologists select the English Heritage property that would be their first choice for a day out
The verge of the world • In 1927, the house and garden where Charles Darwin lived for nearly 40 years were saved for the nation as a monument to his research and ideas.
Pigeon pie with Mrs Crocombe • Audley End’s Victorian cook has become a YouTube sensation. Eleanor Doughty signs in for a lesson with her
Who was Avis?
Mrs Crocombe’s recipe for apple and cream in a mould
In it to win it • Foregoing chocolate, running every day and riding out multiple lots before starting her day job as Chief Sub-Editor of COUNTRY LIFE mean that Octavia Pollock is ready to race to victory in next week’s Magnolia Cup at Glorious Goodwood
Racing for charity
Travel News
The globetrotter • Willow Crossley, writer, florist and proprietor of The Bull Inn, Charlbury, Oxfordshire
Pack your bags Can Ferrereta, Santanyí, Mallorca
The good stuff Find your place • A few quick tricks can make dinner parties pretty, says Hetty Lintell
Kitchen garden cook Raspberries
More ways with raspberries
A rosé glow • For many, a perfectly chilled glass of the pink stuff is the taste of summer. Harry Eyres rounds up the rosé wines you should be drinking
One night stand • An increasing number of sprawling historic houses is available for rent for short stays, finds Eleanor Doughty
Forever England • These quintessentially English estates are the perfect places to revel in the beauty of this green...